qiv command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix qiv command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

qiv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qiv: command not found

Solutions to qiv: command not found

How To Fix qiv: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu qiv is provided by qiv package.

qiv is:

Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlib image viewer. Features include zoom, maxpect, scale down, fullscreen, brightness/contrast/gamma correction, slideshow, pan with keyboard and mouse, rotate left/right, flip, delete (move to .qiv-trash/), jump to image x, jump forward/backward x images, filename filter, and you can use qiv to set your X11-Desktop background.

qiv also supports the assignment of external commands (like metacam) to unused keys.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install qiv

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install qiv.

sudo apt -y install qiv

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install qiv

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix qiv command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.